There is an entire FAQ on the subject on Nintendo's website that covers the various aspects of emulation and ROMs. While emulator developers argue that fair use applies (provided you own the game you are emulating on another platform), Nintendo is very much against the practice. None of this will come as good news for Nintendo. That's because it was also released on the Wii U, which paved the way for running on PC via the Cemu emulator, and rendered at 4K resolution, no less. Interestingly enough, we have already seen one of the most popular Switch games, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, running on PC. We will have to wait and see-for now, Yuzu does not run any commercial games. The development team did a great job with Citra, and given that the Switch is based on familiar hardware, there is reason to believe that Yuzu will turn out just as good.

There is reason to be optimistic though, if you are into this sort of thing. Developers and hackers alike are now very much familiar with the Tegra X1.Īs for what Yuzu will ultimately bring to the table, that remains to be seen.

Part of the reason why something like Yuzu can exist (and arrive so quickly) is because Nintendo opted to use NVIDIA's Tegra X1 hardware platform for the Switch, rather than its own proprietary hardware. 'The emulator is currently only useful for homebrew development and researcher purposes.' 'It is written in C++ with portability in mind, with builds actively maintained for Windows, Linux, and macOS,' the Yuzu team states. Nevertheless, it's here, albeit the initial release is based on experimental open-source code. This moment was inevitable, though most people probably did not expect a Switch emulator to arrive so quickly after the hybrid game console's launch just 10 months. The developers behind the popular 3DS emulator Citra have now announced an emulator for the Nintendo Switch called Yuzu.

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